A friend is someone you don't have to be nice to.
Arnold H. Glasow
Contributed by: Zaady
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
Arnold H. Glasgow
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same God-like and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
Source: Diogenes Laeritius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, book V
While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Source: Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. BC)
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Source: Eudemian Ethics
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Between friends there is no need of justice.